Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians
By: Noel Malcolm
4.66
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffe…
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1. Elegy for Kosovo
By: Ismail Kadare , Peter Constantine
3.83
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the brutal ethnic cleansing that took place in 1997 and 1998 in Kosovo, this collection… read more
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2. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
3. Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know
By: Tim Judah
3.18
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from t… read more
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4. Kissani Jugoslavia
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
Lahjakkaan nuoren kirjoittajan maaginen esikoisromaani juuriltaan revitysta perheesta, mahdottomast… read more
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5. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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6. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
7. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
8. The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture (Library of Balkan Studies)
By: Robert Elsie
4.68
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal socie… read more
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9. Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians
By: Noel Malcolm
4.66
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffe… read more
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10. Kosovo, Kurze Geschichte einer zentralbalkanischen Landschaft
By: Oliver Jens Schmitt
3.73
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Kosovo ist der jungste Staat Europas und hat keine lange staatliche oder regionale Tradition. Das B… read more
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11. A Concise History of Albania
By: Bernd J. Fischer
4.08
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and … read more
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